Puzzle



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B. KERN, Jr. PUZZLE.

No. 511,895. Patented Jam. 2, 1894.

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BERNARD KERN, JR., OF TOLEDO, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO JOSEPH N. OLOUSE, OE ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

PUZZLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 511,895, dated January 2, 1894,

` Application filed January 13, 1893. Serial No. 458,258. (No model.)

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Be it known that I, BERNARD KERN, Jr., a citizen of the United States, residing at Toledo, in the county of Lucas and State of Ohio, have invented new and useful Improvements in Puzzles, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in amusement games in which two or more balls or marbles are used one to designate a fox and the others dogs and the chase is around circular passages or tracks and up and down through dives to the burrow in the center of the game board.

The object of the game is to get the fox into the burrow ahead of the dogs; second, to keep the fox always in the lead of the dogs; also increasing the number of dogs makes the game more difficult to play; and a further object is to have the tracks and passages so narrow that two of the marbles cannot pass I attain these objects by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l, is a front or face view of the game block or board complete. Fig. 2, is a back view of the game block or board complete. Fig. 3, is a cross section of the game board or block taken on the dotted line X., X. Eig. 4 is a cross section of the game board or block taken on the dottedline Y, Y.

Like letters refer to like parts throughout the several Views.

This is game but the matter of this application pertains more particularly to the shape and construction of the board upon which the game is played, it being designed in its upper and lower decks and their valleys and passages between them so as to make such a game possible and difficult on it.

In the drawings the lower deck of the board is represented by A, A, which may be made of wood or formed out of sheet metal. This lower deck A, A, is made with a depressed center portion as shown above the bottom C and a depressed exterior channel a, a, which is bounded by a peripheral ange. It is also provided with four radial channels D, D, D, D, which connect the central depression with the exterior depressed circular channel a, a, and it further has four upward extending radial channels E, E, E, E, which extend up and open onto the upper deck B,B. This upper deck B, B, is permanently attached to the top of thelower deck A, A. It is smaller than the lower deck so as not to cover its exterior depressed channel d, ct. This upper deck B, B, is made with a depressed center portion F, F, and a depressed exterior channel b, b, which is bounded by a peripheral flange to prevent the marbles from rolling otf as in the lower deck. This upper deck B, B, also has four radial inclined channels I, 1,1, I, which connect the central depressed portion with the exterior depressed channel b, b, which downward incline of the channel is from the center toward the outside. In the depressed center portion is permanently xed asemi circular housing H, which is designed to be the home ot' the fox. The fox is represented by marble No. l, which is colored red and the dogs are represented by the marbles Nos. 2, 3, dac., which are colored dark or gray. This game board complete then'is provided with an internal chamber between the two decks from which are four passages leading to an exterior continuous channel. From this interior chamber there are also four upward extending passages which open onto the upper deck into an exterior continuous channel from which there are four ascending passages to a central court around a housing. In all of these spaces and passages there is no place for two of the marbles to pass except in the court above and the chamber below.

I design to make these game-boards of wood, sheet metal or paper. p

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. In a game board, a smaller upper deck portion provided with a depressed central portion carrying a housing and connected with radial channels which extend to a depressed exterior channel from which radial passages project downward into the lower decks depressed central portion, as described and set forth.

2. In a game board the combination of an upper and lower deck having connecting radial passages, an internal chamber formed IOO by a central depression in the lower deck, an v In testimony whereof I have hereunto set upper court formed by a central depression my hand in the presence of two subscribing Io in the upper deck in which there is a fixed Witnesses.

housing and a depressed exterior Valley 5 around each deck which connects by radial BERNARD KERN JR' passages respectively to the internal cham- Witnesses: ber below and the court above, substantially PAUL RAYMEOND, as described and specified. C. S. CURTIS. 

